Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
TERENCE MCKENNAYour memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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